J Hist Ideas. 2023;84(3):487-510. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2023.a901491.
This article examines the use of astronomical chronology in Jesuit and secular works of history between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. It suggests that the highly visible adoption of astronomical records in historical scholarship in Enlightenment Europe by Nicolas Fréret and Voltaire was entangled with debates about Chinese chronology, translated by Jesuit missionaries. The article argues that the missionary Martino Martini's experience of the Manchu conquest of China was crucial in shaping his conception of history as a discipline. Political events that unfolded in seventeenth-century China had a marked effect on discussions about emergent world history in eighteenth-century Europe.
本文考察了 17 世纪中叶至 18 世纪中叶，耶稣会士和世俗历史著作中天文年代学的使用情况。它表明，尼古拉·弗雷雷特（Nicolas Fréret）和伏尔泰（Voltaire）在启蒙时代欧洲的历史学术中广泛采用天文记录，这与耶稣会传教士翻译的中国年代学的争论有关。文章认为，耶稣会传教士马蒂诺·马蒂尼（Martino Martini）在中国满族征服时期的经历，对他将历史视为一门学科的概念的形成至关重要。17 世纪中国发生的政治事件，对 18 世纪欧洲新兴世界历史的讨论产生了显著影响。
